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Dante’s scholars agree that the character of Matelda represents the “prelapsarian” human being, that is, the person not weighed down by original sin. In yesterday’s
Like Marguerite Porete (see yesterday’s DM), Hadewijch of Brabant was a beguine, a learned woman, and wrote in the language of the people — in
The majority of the witches’ trials and executions happened in the early modern era, with the Malleus Maleficarum — the main textbook on how to
I was saddened to learn this past hour that Rabbi Arthur Waskow has passed on at the age of 92. Activist, wisdom-seeker and teacher, his
Yesterday, October 15, was the feast day of Teresa of Avila (1515-1582). This most famous and revered Spanish saint — proclaimed “doctor of the Church”
An homiletic treatise of the 1st century C.E. presents a list of ancestors who trusted in God since the origins of the world. All together
Stories about people who acted for the good of the whole in peculiarly difficult circumstances, even to the extreme sacrifice, are important for us. They
In a time of evil and antichrist energy active in MAGA in the highest places of our land, it is good to resist, and to
February 10: T.S. Eliot on the Mystics as Medicine for Despair “The mystics — or else despair,” said T.S. Eliot. The writings and actions of
There is considerable despair in the air these days. And for obvious reasons that do not need renaming here. T.S. Eliot offered the mystics as medicine
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